Darth Brooks posted:

Ok, ready for a massive post?

I did a tutorial about setting up a football uniform so you can edit the colors in it. I thought I'd share. This is a set of three copy/paste jobs.
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Now a bit about Darken, Multiply and their do goody goody twins Lighten and Screen.

These are blend modes. They decide how an upper layer blends into a lower one. Hue is decided like so 100%=pure white 0%= pure black.

Darken used the darkest pixel value. If a lower pixel is darker than the upper one, it keeps the value the same. If your top layer is 50% and bottom 25%, it stays at the 25%.

Multiply takes both layers into account regardless of which is darker. If your top layer is 50% and bottom 25%, it becomes 13% (really 12.5%).



Lighten works in reverse of darken. It takes the highest pixel value. If your top layer is 50% and bottom 25%, it keeps the 50%.

Screen Works the reverse of Multiply. If your top layer is 50% and bottom 25%, it becomes 63% (really 62.5%).

What this means is that you will get much more realistic color if you use Multiply and Screen than Darken and Lighten. M&S are much more universal.



If you look at the middle image, some of the shadows on the original image have a darker hue value than the red that is being applied so you have this unrealistic gray in the shadows. With Multiply the red is applied evenly and the shadows that were darker than the surrounding areas still have the same contrast.

Doing the same with a bit of grass from our starter image.



The grass on the right isn't perfect but it's a great deal better than the mess on the left. It needs work, in part because there's color in the shadows that is missing. But for that we'll need to use masks. And that's next.

Now on to using masks.

Masks are a way of cutting a area of an image without destroying it. Masking a layer is an incredibly flexible way of handling a section of an image. To show you this in action we're going to work with a dandelion. The point of this demo is to show how you can make very fine selections



Wikipedia is providing the dandelion. First, look at the channels tab. We're looking for the one with the most contrast between what we want to get rid of and what we want to keep.



The blue channel is the best for this little demo. The channel you'll choose will vary image by image. Next, increase the contrast as gently as you can. You want the stuff you're going to keep to be white and the stuff you're getting rid of black. Whether you work in black first and then invert the image is up to you. Sometimes that works out best.


In progress.


This is what you want to end up with.

Next, go to Select>Load Selection> whatever you named that channel as, then hit the Add Vector Mask button.

This is the result. The Dandelion is separated with all the little detail preserved.


Because this is a Sports Logo board, here's the Dandelion on a football field.



I did have to do a little adjusting. The exterior edges still kept some of the greens, so I made a duplicate layer. The first layer is cut in a little. Loading the selection again, I feathered the edge, then deleted the selection. This cut in the edge. The layer below was set to Screen. That gave the image that very light edge that Dandelions have.

So how does this apply to football?

We'll take another look at our football player.



I cleaned up the image a little bit, removing the players in the back and cropping it down to where it's focused on the player. The original is washed out so I increased the contrast. First thing up is the grass. I wanted to work on the light and dark parts of the grass separately. The black and white is a division between colors that were lighter or darker and they probably weren't the same colors.

I used the method above to made a mask for the darker colors and below it I did the greens and such. Without the original image it looked like this.



(note that there's a layer for the white lines as well)

Put together it looks like this.



You'll also note that the layers for the grass are in their own folder, which has a layer mask of it's own to keep the grass off the player, which has to be a first.

Next step on the player is making the uniform colors editable. You need an upper and lower light & shadow level. In English, one layer that looks like what the jersey would look like if it was white, one layer that looks like what the jersey would look like if it was black. You set the darker layer to Screen. This means that the reflections and highlights will show up no matter how dark the jersey gets. The lighter layer is set to multiply. This means that no matter how light the jersey gets, it still has the shadows and definition it would have if it was pure white.

The two layers work together so that you have a natural balance of lights and dark no matter what your jersey color. It was a bit difficult with this one because the image is so crude. This is what I came up with.



This is what it looks like in practice.



I had a few problems with the shine on the shoes. They could have been a separate layer, one that isn't affected by hue changes.

The psd is here if you want to play with it: http://darth-brooks.deviantart.com/art/A-template-using-a-very-old-college-player-442861902

If you want a set of photos to practice with I suggest you look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65516705@N00/sets/72157641816748303/ It's a set of photos of the new Buccaneer uniforms and the photos are huge. In case I didn't say this, it really helps to work larger than what you want your final image to be. (It hides a lot of errors)
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Sometime later I want to put the guy in a modern uniform (at least in color and whatever uniform decorations there are (like the San Diego lightning pant stripes)

Febreeze posted:

By the way, here is my 200th comic, in which I poo poo on Timbers fans
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/smug-soccer-fans/

Febreeze posted:

I just wanted to also put this great tutorial by Darth Brooks in the OP, because it's fantastic.


By the way, here is my 200th comic, in which I poo poo on Timbers fans
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/smug-soccer-fans/

We were having a good time changing song lyrics in the last thread, so lets kick the thread off with that. Take a well known classic song and change the lyrics to football stuff. Also provide a link to the song on youtube so we can kind of sing along

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I will never understand how someone can claim to be a soccer fan and then voluntarily follow American soccer. Its like being a basketball fan who dedicates themselves to a Jr High school team.

Lost Season posted:

I've already made an MSPaint!



This represents the sum total of my artistic abilities.

Lost Season posted:

I've already made an MSPaint!



This represents the sum total of my artistic abilities.

Febreeze posted:

This is actually a good theme.

MS Paint something related to "The lost season". Just use that as an idea. Whoever makes the consensus funniest picture will get a free picture out of me. Or an avatar, if that's your thing. Contest ends on friday.

Magicpants posted:

I had made this a while ago, and nobody laughed at it then, so I dunno what I'm thinking reposting it, but it seemed apropos, so

McStabby posted:

JRizzle posted:

You forgot to mention how they didn't beat a certain team by enough points or something arbitrary like that.

Fenrir posted:

You guys are awesome, some of these farts so far are pretty awesome, but reading that new OP just reminded me of how much I miss Toaster Beef

Breaky posted:

What happened to Toaster Beef?

Fenrir posted:

He just sorta went quiet

Qwijib0 posted:

So I made a thing with IcePhoenix's lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85zpK1D4Mc

Qwijib0 posted:

So I made a thing with IcePhoenix's lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85zpK1D4Mc

Qwijib0 posted:

So I made a thing with IcePhoenix's lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85zpK1D4Mc

quote:

LOST

14 seasons

If found, please return to the Paterno family.


No reward.

Qwijib0 posted:

So I made a thing with IcePhoenix's lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V85zpK1D4Mc